SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Starting next October 15, third and fourth year students of technical science courses will receive their classes in companies belonging to the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), according to the official press.
The initiativeproposed by Vicente de La O Levy, Minister of Energy and Mines, will mean that students of Electrical, Mechanical, Automatic, Chemical, Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering will study directly in companies.
Juan Ruiz Quintana, Director General of Mining at MINEM, explained that students from 10 universities in the country will take their classes in 19 electric companies, seven mining companies and one salt company, 11 oil companies, five nickel companies, and at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology (Geological Service of Cuba).
For this purpose, companies have been designated as teachers, he explained. University professors and professionals from industries “will teach the content of each of these seven courses and will be linked to specific projects and solutions to the problems that the mining and energy sector industries face today.”
The 44 companies involved are part of the Electric Union, Cubapetróleo, Geominsal and Cubaníquel.
“The strategy will allowto further surround the trainers and to employers so that the nation has better prepared and competent professionals in the application of science and innovation in solving difficulties, very typical of the persistent and reinforced economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States government,” said the official press.
At the same time, he stressed that the idea was born from dictator Fidel Castro, when he said in 1968: “In the future, practically every factory, every agricultural area, every hospital, every school will be a university.”
Triumphant, Ruiz Quintana understood that “with this we all win.”
The news comes in a context of widespread blackouts across the country, amid the regime’s inefficiency in controlling the energy crisis.
In May of this year, the Cuban ruler, Miguel Diaz-Canelsaid the country would experience “prolonged” power outages until June due to maintenance work on the energy system. This measure, according to the authorities, was aimed at reducing interruptions during the months of July and August, when consumption is highest.
However, after the first half of September, the situation remains the same or worse.
This month, Vicente de la O Levy, Minister of Energy and Mines, tried to justify the prolonged blackouts suffered by Cubans by referring to the maintenance of obsolete thermoelectric plantsand which, according to his words, were carried out with the resources available in the country.
